From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 01:16:19 +0000

>More and more UK
>research is now freely available to the world¹s readers - great.  But
>a significant proportion of the cash is going to large commercial
>publishers to pay inflated APCs for hybrid journals.  And the majority
>of that proportion is going to publishers - most notably Elsevier- who
>refuse to engage meaningfully with the UK community on double-dipping.
>This is essentially free cash to those publishers - over a £1million a
>year to Elsevier, for example.

Just curious ‹ does anyone know how much of the cash in question is going
to PLOS? (I genuinely don¹t know and have no particular expectation as to
what the answer might be.)


Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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